Woman returns copy of her favourite book to library ... 52 years later

Books have a powerful impact as the story of Faithful clearly indicates. Photo: Unsplash/Micheile Henderson

Melanie (Lamb) Faithful checked out a copy of Little Men from the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library in Indiana in the United States when she was 11 years old. The book, written by Louisa May Alcott, had a due date of July 31, 1969.

But the library wouldn't see that book again for nearly 52 years when it arrived in the mail in April, postmarked from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Faithful lives.